Cha>tocarpus.~\ cxxxv. EUPHORBIACEJS. (J. D. Hooker.) 461 



ceous, dark brown when dry, base acute; nerves 8-12 pairs, arched, very slender ; 

 petiole \-\ in., stout or rather slender ; stipules obliquely oblong-lanceolate. Flowers 

 | in. diam., in globose clusters. Sepals rounded, concave. Stamens 8. Capsule 

 f-1 in. long ; bristles tawny yellow. Seeds black shining, caruncle 2-lobed fleshy 

 crimson. Thwaites (Enum, 1. c.) cites fig. 1 of the plate in the Journal of Botany as 

 representing the male fl. of C. castanocarpus, but it appears to me to belong to 

 coriaceus. 



2. C. pubescens. Hook. f. ; branches petioles and leaves beneath 

 hirsutely tomentose, leaves very coriaceous oblong or linear-oblong acuminate 

 opaque, capsules subglobose densely clothed with long rigid bristles. C. 

 castanocarpus, var. pubescens, Thwaites Enum. 275. 



CKYLON ; at Pasdun Corle, Thwaites. 



This, which is placed under C. castanocarpus by Thwaites, seems to me entirely 

 different, in the much stouter and very hirsute branches and leaves beneath, the 

 much larger very coriaceous leaves 810 by 34 in., and more minute sessile tomentose 

 flowers, narrower sepals, and shorter tomentose staminal column. 



3. C. coriaceus, Thwaites Enum. 275 ; glabrous, leaves very coria- 

 ceous elliptic acuminate at both ends, capsule ellipsoid tubercled. Mueli '. 

 Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1122; Beddome Forester's Man. 214, and Fl. 

 Sylvat. t. 284, f. 11-14. C. pungens, Thwaites in Hook. Journ. Sot. v'i. 

 (1854) 301 (in part), t. 10 A, f. 6-9. 



CEYLON ; with C. castanocarpus. 



A moderate-sized tree. Leaves 3-6 in., base acute and produced on the very short 

 stout petiole ; nerves 5-7 pair, slender. Floivers tomentose. Sepals oblong. Fila- 

 ments hairy. Capsule obscurely 6-angled, f in. long, woody. 



64. BAXiXOSPERlKUlK, Blume. 



Erect shrubs. Leaves alternate, sinuate-toothed or lobed, penninerved 

 or 3-5-plinerved at the 2-glandular base. Flowers small, monoecious or 

 dioecious, panicled or racemed, apetalous. MALE FL. globose. Sepals 4-6, 

 membranous, orbicular, concave, imbricate. Disk of 4-6 glands. Stamens 

 10-30, on a small receptacle, filaments free or a few connate ; anthers ter- 

 minal, cells adnate for their whole length to the broad connective (nearly 

 free in B. malayanum), slits lateral, at first introrse. Pistillode (or 3 in 

 B. malayanum'). FEM. FL. Sepals 5-6, lanceolate, entire or toothed, some- 

 times accrescent in fruit. Disk entire. Ovary 3-celled, styles rather long, 

 stout, 2-fid or 2-partite, stigmatic surfaces smooth (not fimbriate) ; cells 

 1-ovuled. Capsule of 3 2-valved crustaceous cocci. Seeds ovoid, testa 

 crustaceous, albumen fleshy ; cotyledons flat, broad. Species 6, Indian, 

 one of them Malayan. 



The smaller species a good deal resemble Claorylon, but the anthers at once dis- 

 tinguish them. Kurz's B. reidioides (For. Fl. ii. 411), from Siam, belongs to a very 

 different genus ; it has 5 petals and 3 anthers crowning a column, which is seated in a 

 cupular disk. 



1. B. axillare, Blume Bijd. 604; monoecious, stem stout, leaves 

 sinuate-toothed upper small lanceolate lower large oblong ovate or rounded 

 entire or palmately 3-5-lobed 3-5-plinerved, flowers in numerous axillary 

 racemes, fruiting calyx not accrescent, ovary densely strigose, capsule large, 

 seeds oblong. B. polyandrum, Wight Ic. t. 1885; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 

 232. B. indicuni, Dene. inJacquem. Voy. Bot. 154, 1. 155. B. Moritzianum, 

 Baill. Etudes Gen. JSuphorb. 395. B. angulare, Dene. mss. (fid. Baill.). 



